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Quest, Miles.

How to Buy and Manage Your Own Hotel / Miles Quest, Peter Nannestad - 4th ed. - Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers, ©2015. - 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 1 online resource (244 pages)

1 Hospitality - what's it all about? -- 2 Some basic facts -- 3 Franchising and branding: where the challenge lies -- 4 What kind of hotel will suit me best? -- 5 Location, location and location -- 6 Using the business agent -- 7 Is the business sound? -- 8 The importance of occupancy - and interpreting the accounts -- 9 Is the purchase feasible? -- 10 Raising the finance -- 11 Finding a good lawyer and some legal points -- 12 Taking over -- 13 Budgeting -- 14 Sole trader or limited company - and some legal points -- 15 Starting from scratch - some thoughts on conversion -- 16 Building up the business -- 17 Boosting your sales -- 18 Harnessing social media to your business -- 19 What to do about the restaurant? -- 20 You and your staff -- 21 Keeping up the investment -- 22 What of the future? -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack.

Hotel keeping is an arduous profession. It needs technical, managerial, marketing and economic expertise; what's more, it demands total commitment. This book provides the complete purchasing toolkit. It removes all the complications and mystique and guides readers around the pitfalls of ownership, saving much heartache and expense.


Available electronically via the Internet.

9781910158210


Hotel management--Great Britain.

Electronic books.

647.94068